Firefall is a Free-to-Play sci-fi MMO Shooter set in a dynamic, living, open world. Experience fast-paced shooting action with thousands of players from around the world and fight against the Chosen to reclaim Earth.

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February 10

Accord forces have cornered the Chosen Razorwind clan deep in the Amazon rainforest. The Razorwind clan has made its last stand at an ancient battlefield from the Crystite Wars. While they have been wounded, they won't go down without a fight. The harder we hit them, the harder they will hit us, using the next evolution of their Juggernauts and Siegebreakers, now more deadly than ever.

Your mission: wipe them out. Root them out of the tunnels that riddle the area, flush them from the swamps of the Sombrio, and hunt them in the wreckage of the UAS Horizon. Complete daily missions for the Accord to gain access to the climactic battle against Razorwind's generals.

To aid you in this fight, new archetype specific battleframe cores have been made available. These special WARCOM-developed cores grant you new abilities that will make you more lethal than you have ever been.

Gear up. This will be a battle the likes of which Firefall has never seen.

Reviews

“Hands down, Firefall is a great game that keeps delivering as you play.”
90 – Nerd Reactor

“Firefall is a game that seriously mixes the shooter and RPG genre into one game and does this extremely well.”
80 – OnRPG

“Simply put, Firefall is one of the most robust and best-playing F2P MMOs you can find.”
74 – MMORPG

New Update!

The joint efforts of the Accord and the ARES Initiative have driven the Chosen Razorwind clan to flee into the depths of the Amazon, but the war has just begun. Join us in taking the battle to the once luscious rainforest, where the Chosen will be making their final stand against humanity. Suit-up and prepare for war, pilot.

Features:

• Chosen Warzone – Get ready for the first Warzone, a massive battleground where players must work together to combat the Chosen Razorwind threat and secure critical vantage points that will help the Accord win the war. This endgame zone includes brand new enemies, dynamic encounters and missions, and rewards!

• Big Game Hunter – Polish your plasma canons and prepare to hunt! Big Game Hunter features stronger, mutated versions of normal creatures to challenge as well as new achievements for players brave enough to stalk these rabid beasts.

• New Improvements – Update 1.3 also contains numerous additions and improvements to Firefall including new reputation system, new ranged weapon modules, and a new squad loot feature. Log in and experience it all today!

About This Game

Fundamentally built to be a completely Free-to-Play AAA MMO Shooter, Firefall delivers an engaging gameplay experience like no other. With a constantly changing world, deep narrative, endless customization, and rewarding player progression, Firefall will consistently deliver spectacular content that will please both PvE and PvP players.

Reclaim Earth

"I grow tired of watching my friends die in battle day after day. The Chosen have claimed more of us than we have of them, and the Melding consumes more of our planet by the minute. This is still our home, our planet, and we want it back. Join us and help us fight this dreaded war, because as our world falls, we rise together." - Unknown ARES Pilot on the frontlines.

Key Features

• Explore a vast, evolving open world with dynamic content that responds to player interactions.
• Discover the lore of Firefall through episodic narrative.
• Combat your enemies in a skill based shooter in either first or third person view.
• Engage dynamic Missions and Events, including epic Titan Battles.
• Upgrade your Battleframe with limitless crafting, loot, and progression.
• Outfit your character with endless customization options.

Dynamic, Living, Open WorldExplore a vast open world from New Eden to Devil’s Tusk. Become an elite ARES pilot and be prepared to fight an array of creatures as well as confront the Chosen. Don a variety of Battleframes and destroy your enemies from either a first or third person viewpoint.

Heroes Will RiseCombat the Chosen to reclaim earth and become the best ARES pilot in your class. With familiar and highly polished shooting mechanics, your skill and dedication will be rewarded. Firefall is action packed with rewarding content, including massive Titan Battles for PvE and skill-based open world PvP.

A World without LimitsFirefall is the first AAA Free-to-Play MMO Shooter. Outfitted with military-grade battleframes, players will be able to collect equipment and materials to customize and strengthen their arsenal of weapons and abilities, while experiencing Firefall’s rich lore and engaging content. With epic loot to be unearthed and rewarding level progression to be achieved, the possibilities in Firefall are limitless.

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP SP3

Processor: AMD Dual Core @ 2.6GHz; Intel Dual Core @ 2.2GHz

Memory: 4 GB RAM

Graphics: Nvidia 8600 or ATI 4xxx with 1GB of VRAM

DirectX: Version 9.0c

Network: Broadband Internet connection

Hard Drive: 20 GB available space

Within the United States and/or other territories, Firefall, Red 5 Studios and all associated logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red 5 Studios, Inc. All rights reserved. The content of this video game is fictional and it is not intended to represent or depict an actual event, persons or locations in the video game setting. The makers of this video game do not in any way endorse, condone or encourage engaging in any conduct depicted in the video game. Firefall may not be available on all platforms or in all territories. Release dates may vary by territories.

I was a closed beta tester and now a Founder and have played this game off and on for almost three years now and probably have close to 900 hours in it. I've got all the frames and I've got half of them to level at least 20 and four of them to level 40.

In early CB this game was pretty cool, it was like the gun play of UT, with the movement abilities of Tribes, the class system of TF, the graphical appeal of Borderlands, and a gear crafting part like Guild Wars.

Did I mention it was open world like the TES series? Yeah, it was pretty legit. Then they added PvP because they wanted to make it an e-sport and in doing so balanced all the frames for PvP and it made only two frames viable for PvE, which we still have that problem NOW, three years later with their open world PvP.

Then they spammed ARES missions all over, spammed BL2 style job boards all over, everything is balanced for end game content and the abilities are balanced for PvP and not PvE.

The game turned into a huge grind of repetive missions over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... I think you get the idea.

I still log in for a few minutes about every week or so to see if anything has changed, but the only changes I've seen are what appears to be a slightly shrinking playerbase.

Firefall is a good free to play, if only he had more courage in merging MMO and FPS elements that constitute the core, would have really been able to make ends meet. I refer to the social components developed only partially and AOLA lack of an open PvP adequately contextualized: the lack of factions (the Chosen playable would really manna) and dedicated servers to clan warfare on a global scale is aging considerably a title, especially as it is a true F2P that sells for real money only aesthetic elements and boost the experience, still deserves to be recommended to all for the breadth of what it has to offer and the incisiveness of some goodies like the live event and the economic system. Ultimately lacks that degree of innovation that could elevate to something truly unique.

This game when I started playing it back in late July 2014 IT Was Awesome just what I wanted but after months of playing it. It changed, The devs took the fun from it and replaced it with nerfs and upgraded NPC damage to the point of making the game frustrating and just a grind. Now all my friends from other games that I got into Firefall have just stopped playing and some friends I met ingame Firefall just drop by now and then but most of them haven't been on for months.

This is the classic mistake game that devs make, they put out a great game and then second guess it to chit, while nerfing it as they are saying they will be putting out new stuff soon. All the while players see only false promises and upgraded NPC damage that they have to use gimped toons against.

Red 5 pretends to listen to players but only if it suits thier purpose as to what they want to do .!.

Ah Firefall, one of the few MMO's out there who have shown promise and does it's best to live up to it while other games cough cough!* Destiny cough cough! have failed to deliver and as a result developers (and publishers included) over hype it's content.

Now you may ask: "why Firefall? surely there are better MMOs out there!" no, there really aren't. I have played Rift, SWTOR, WoW, Warframe, Runescape the list goes on and none of those MMOs have impressed me in the least. SWTOR is basically WoW with a Star wars coat of paint plagued by EA's greed and Bioware's massive ego. Rift, was 'okay' but it's still WoW with a new skin and nothing more. Warframe was 90% of the time a Dungeon raid grinding simulator plagued by microtransactions and slow progression all set to make more money, and while I am aware the devs must make money to continue development of said game sometimes it can get out of hand.

And finally WoW, their business model is a dying animal from 1999 dragged into this modern world hoping for customers. And while WoW is addictive it's community is toxic and pretty much full of virgin 18 year old males with no lives chasing Blood elf women all over the place to stare at their breasts.

Now what exactly makes Firefall different from all the rest? Firefall is a F2P FPS/TPS/MMO with of course, jetpacks. It's setting is in the future so it's a sci-fi MMO and that all together is all the reason you need to play it. Why you might ask? because every other MMO out there is trying to be the same thing which is pretty much Dungeons and Dragons. This is a fresh breath of air within the MMO side of gaming that should be explored further, but everyone seems to be quite stupid so let them rot with their WoW clones.

But this isn't enough information for you to play the game and try it out for yourself. I am explaining this from my opinion, what I should really be doing is giving you the good sides and the bad sides of this game instead of hitting on other games for their lack of creativity.

Gameplay:

While Firefall's combat may not hang on button mashing a spell in multiple slots, the combat is no where near perfect. The combat is a little glitchy and tends to be awkward when fighting NPC's due to NPC's "skiing" around with poor animation quality. Which is yet another problem with the combat, the animations need desperate work because it makes indie zombie survival game combat look as fluid as clear water (although it isn't really that bad, but close enough.)

First person perspective's animations are just as bad because the view model seems to break quite often either by random chance or exiting large frame drops, so for the most part you'll be playing in Third person. Now don't get me wrong the combat is fun enough to continue playing, but it needs help if it wishes to keep shooter fans such as myself invested.

And now for the meat of the game, grinding! because that's fun right!? doing missions over and over and over and over until you get to the next level so you can go to the higher level area and do missions there over and over and over and over again it's so much fun I muted the game!

Why?! why do dev's think an MMO's primary goal is to drive yourself insane? I don't want to do the same things I did with the last class until I get my next class to 40! Can you guess what you get in return for grinding all the way up to 40? *plays drumb roll* if you guessed more grinding then you. are. the WINNNNNNAAAAAH!!! you get to go play Warzones in Devil's Tusk with other overly powerful level 40 players and get boat loads of XP you can't use! But wait! there's more! if you didn't think tedious resource gathering was enough for you, now you can go do tedious resource gathering as enemy players eat your limbs off in seconds while watching them ♥♥♥♥ your family in front of you crying tears of blood! FUN RIGHT?!

Here's a better idea, make the end game worth it. You tortured people all that way just to give them the same thing they were doing at the lower levels but this time far, far, worse! Let's say for example: at the end game you can now get four player special ops missions that require certain skill types such as stealth, distraction, stealing, etc and in return you can get cosmetics or higher chances of getting purple items- something atleast worth leveling to 40. Because I couldn't give a damn about how powerful my character is when all you have to do is stay in the air and fire down death until you complete X Y and Z objectives. Plus mobs can't complain on a forum about how over powered you are so I really can't care about my strength unless fighting in PVP which pretty much boils down to who has the most purple gear anyway...

Storyline:

Ooooooooh boy, I am not going to have fun explaining this. I'll get straight to the point and say it's a poorly written saturday morning cartoon show. The writing is so tasteless it makes me want to dry heave! Everything is predictable! for example: "jee, I hope giant crabs from space don't rain on us" *giant crabs from space rain on you* "oh no this was so unpredictable your armor's power is draining and now you can't fly because reasons...Oh dear, let me bring them back up as slowly as I can." And they do nothing to mix it up. Whatever you do when you play this game, avoid job boards unless you are an achievement hunter.

The good news is the story can be ignored, the bad news is no one cared enough to make a compelling cast of characters. Yeah, you have your hot hacker chick telling you what to do and a redneck uncle engineer to add as comedy relief but at the end of the day you have no reason to care for these people. Yeah I get it, I'm not expected to care for the virtual characters, but for the sake of the player, at least make them half decent.

The plus side however, most MMOs don't have voice acting at all. Of course games like WoW have shop dialogue "oy! come to sell yer ♥♥♥♥ son?" "I buy and sell ♥♥♥♥" "hurry up on over here so I can buy your ♥♥♥♥" "I sell quality ♥♥♥♥ at the ♥♥♥♥♥iest price!" But the majority of it is text, it's not like I hate reading but when the entire game has a weak plot and a crappy UI I have already lost interest at level 1. So Red5 get's points for placing honest effort into it.

Final Verdict

So what are the good things I can say about this game? well it's free, you can unlock everything within the game for free if you are willing to work for it, and it has a great community as well as developers. But the glitches and the lack of content is what holds me back from speaking positively about this game.

It's not like I didn't try to like this game! I really wanted to enjoy Firefall, and I still do, but it's a love/hate relationship. I have 322 hours on record as proof that I enjoyed the game enough to soldier through it's flaws and eventually write a review on it. And in return I give Firefall a 6/10, it's above 5 because it is trying to be a good MMO that doesn't constantly try to harpoon your wallet every chance it gets like most MMO's I have played. Now do I suggest you install FF right now? well, the in game music is broken, the UI is always glitching (it can even go as far as restarting your game) and this cannot be fixed via hotfix. Despite that go ahead and install it if you have the space for it otherwise move along.

Edit : I have over 1000 hours on it. It's charming but the game isn't going anywhere. Grind fest with "slow mo" devs. Bugs, SEVERE lack of content and empty hope. Once you are lvl 40, it will take you about 4-5 hours to finish eveything the game has to offert as the "End game". After that it's pointless AWZ daily quest grind with bugs preventing you from completing some of them. Still waiting until fall for that patch...